The Ackland Film Forum Highlights Female Filmmakers from the 1990s to the Present
The Ackland Film Forum returned to the Varsity Theatre on September 25 with its fall 2018 series...
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Ackland Art Museum
Ackland Art Museum Celebrates 60th Birthday
The Ackland Art Museum is turning 60 years old Thursday. The museum is starting a yearlong...
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September 19, 2018: #RedBallProject
A traveling artistic installation called the “RedBall Project” is coming to Chapel Hill this week and next, part of the Ackland Art Museum’s 60th anniversary celebration. Artist Kurt Perschke joined Aaron on the air, along with the Ackland’s Lauren Turner and Chapel Hill Public Library director Susan Brown.
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One Week: Exploring Our ‘Hometowns’
Exploring our ‘hometowns’ is an activity that has been continually present in my life...
Read MoreUNC’s Ackland Art Museum Hosting “The Outwin: American Portraiture Today”
The Ackland Art Museum on North Carolina’s campus will host “The Outwin: American Portraiture Today” on view from the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery starting on June 1. The selected finalists for the 2016...
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This is Tourism: Artistic Leader Katie
On March 29, Director at the Ackland Art Museum, Katie Ziglar talked to Ron Stutts about the increase in visitors to the Ackland as a result of the terrace gallery displaying Patrick Dougherty’s Step Right Up “stickwork”. They also discussed all of the opportunity for visitors that comes as a result of a generous gift, including northern European works on paper from Sheldon and Leena Peck.
Read MoreAckland Acquires New Collection
The Ackland Art Museum has been selected to acquire 12 works from the Atlanta-based Souls Grown Deep Foundation, which holds the largest collection of contemporary art from the African-American South. The Ackland is the only...
Read MoreLane Closure Set for South Columbia Street in Chapel Hill
Traffic on South Columbia Street in Chapel Hill will be impeded by a lane closure for up to three days according to a release from the municipal government. The release states that a portion of the northbound lane in front of...
Read MoreAckland Receives Art Donation Worth $17 Million
140. That’s the number of artworks Dr. Sheldon Peck and his wife Leena donated to the Ackland Art Museum Wednesday. And these aren’t just any pieces of art, but rare European master drawings, valued at $17 million. Peck also...
Read MoreKatie Ziglar Named Director Of Ackland Art Museum
Katie Ziglar has been appointed as the director of the Ackland Art Museum. Ziglar is currently the Director of External Affairs at the Freer|Sackler Galleries, Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. and will take over in...
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